Booths Blend English Tea and a Raisin Whirl

Location: Booths supermarket, Ulverston, Cumbria
Date: 5 August 2009
Details: Booths special blend English tea with skimmed milk; raisin whirl pastry

Notes: Booths supermarkets are reassuringly traditional - I wish we had them in the Midlands but sadly their branches don't go further south than Preston. Not been to a Booths? It's like a friendly version of Waitrose, specialising in local produce and good quality brands. Nice. Best bit is their scoop-it-yourself frozen fruit station. Brilliant.

My mother and I shared this bog-standard British tea in bog-standard ceramic cups, having purchased these plastic-looking raisin whirls in the shop. A mediocre afternoon tea resuced by the tip-top company.